Last week, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an import ban on goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Burnham’s government wants to pose itself on the side of “fairness against injustice”, but this move is performative, tokenistic, and changes nothing.

US imperialism’s offensive on the American continent continues with the signing of ‘the world’s largest oil deal’ with Venezuela. This ‘deal’ is in reality a heist – and it has put the final nail in the coffin of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Andy Burnham’s first foreign visit was to Ukraine, speaking of a “just and lasting peace”. But he wants no such thing. Britain and the European powers are cynically prolonging this bloodshed for their own imperialist interests, using ordinary Ukrainians as cannon fodder.